I can see the place is dark, and tidy. As if the personage did not so much in that place. tables and chairs are also neat.
The circle images a movement of resumption. And the only spectator of the scene is himself.
Bars on the window shows us that place is like a jail, from which there will be no escape, as no doors could be seen.
Maybe culture, books and paintings could confine the body to old age and solitude.
Thanks goodness, he has someone to bring him some cigars.

Nice day to all of You.

It is almost as if it is a mirror-image, however, can we be absolutely positive that it is the artist that holds the sphere? I’m not convinced. Whoever holds the sphere is using the left hand while the person seated in the sphere has his left hand on his left knee…it is his right hand that rises up to meet with the “other’s” hand.

I remember reading somewhere about mirrored glass and two-way glass. With a mirror reflection, if you point your finger and place the tip of your fingernail directly on the glass, a small space appears between the fingernail tip and the mirrored image of it. With two-way glass, there is no space between images.

So, I wonder about this “captured” image depicted inside the sphere as the hands, albeit opposite hands, are touching with no space in-between.

I almost get a little dizzy trying to figure out all the angles within this rounded medium, LOL.